Plastic

53 billion KW hours of electricity are saved annually by plastic applications in the consumer sector.

All of us use plastics. Be it in the form of bags, bottles, wires, etc. Plastics play a vital role in our lives. They are cheap, quite stong, and extremely flexible. They can be stretched into any form of plastic. The main reason why they are commonly used-they are very affordable. We have seen that all the shopkeepers give us plastic bags to carry our items. Even plastic bottles are inexpensive and have changed the face of availability and affordability.

Almost everything now can be made out of plastic. But, as you have seen the concern of enviromentalists, plastics pollute the environment to a very high extent. Many of us throw away plastic bags after usage of the products. These little dreaded substances are cheap, but can clog drains to such an extent that flooding will increase drastically. These plastics also contain certain harmful elements mixed with polycarbonates which can harm your delicate organs.

So, plastics are affordable, but should be used within limits as they are dangerous if unwisely used. They help us a lot, and we cannot just avoid them or ban them. As long as we take care of our enviornment, plastics are the best option for packaging material and other applications.
Yes.... so the option we are left with is not to throw away plastics all together, but to reuse and recycle them judiciously so that they do not pollute the environment. A world without plastics would not have seen the revolutionary progress of humans. Throwing out plastics would be an unrealistic idea.

Don't throw out the baby with the bath water....

So I hope that you have developed some environmentally passionate feelings after reading this. The reason as to why this post has an environmental perspective is because people have the wrong view about plastic and are too extreme in their thnking.

Over the lifetime of the average car, plastic parts save 650 gallons or 2400 litres of gas as a result of light weight.

Hopefully this post provoked some evocative feelings within you... Watch this space for more...

This is Vishal Katariya and Shashank Sreekar signing off...